Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
Chicago Outfit即芝加哥黑手党，卡彭曾是领袖；Outfit双关有些刻意；黑帮A竭力蚕食黑帮B，双面秘书拉FBI入伙并坐收渔翁之利；男主假扮黑手党煽风点火，之后见招拆招，借刀灭A，再送B入狱。特别说明：秘书将真磁带交给FBI；男主谎称上层线人，数月投信拱火，再将假磁带寄给A；秘书通风报信，B出手抢假磁带，FBI围剿A；片末是第三盒。对A少爷小肚鸡肠和杯弓蛇影的刻画不可或缺，为内讧铺垫。情节依赖两个巧合：1.B赶在A少爷播放假磁带前设伏；忽略卡式磁带1963年才出现的bug，也是靠谱的，因为1956年磁带录音机还未普及。2.A少爷中伏后返回裁缝店；若B在裁缝店附近埋伏，也没毛病。否则，B会抢走假磁带，A仍被FBI剿灭，B继续做赌场，秘书出国，男主无事，第三盒不用上场。里朗斯真神！
精致紧凑，又能在文本上下功夫，也能有效的把控节奏。编导演都在线，观感也很精彩。单一场景真的一直很爱。
老裁缝气定神闲，通过几方博弈，言语挑逗，成功团灭了黑帮之一，太厉害了。
小场景佳作。嗯，离间、策反、李代桃僵、瓮中捉鳖、借刀杀人层出不穷，反转反转再反转，基本没冷场。老头的选角么，那份木讷，虽不敢说完美，但算贴切。
非常精致的一部室内电影，从头到尾都发生在一个布景里，很有舞台剧的感觉。悬念和twist开始很精彩，从中后期女主加入故事性就开始变弱甚至越来越强行了。老裁缝一胳膊十二生肖的reveal简直毫无意义。虽有些虎头蛇尾，但我觉得总体呈现的还是不错的，也很好地控制了时长。
"I'm not a tailor, I'm a cutter."
剧本杀电影不只靠剧本，还要靠演技，马克里朗斯成功展现了一个复杂角色的多层次，隐藏在最深处的恨意被层层包裹再随着剧情层层剥开，充分满足了类型的爽感和反转的可信度，国内改编成啥样我都快能猜出来了
短小但不够精悍，前50分钟比较乏味。后续的故事，也颇有种为反转而反转的意味，因为老头的计划达成得太顺利，显得黑帮很蠢。最后又翻出老头的真实身份，固然很帅，但有些画蛇添足。
就用复古的模式讲了个故弄玄虚的故事呗 场景很省钱 人员调度很方便 遇到喜欢这种形式的还会夸奖一声结构精巧 剧本很适合当作舞台剧演出呈现 但是有《死亡陷阱》珠玉在前 这部实在算不上精妙
反转地球～yoyoyo 咱就是说，这电影到底多省钱
true fact: the first bug the FBI ever planted in its history was planted in Chicago, Illinois, in 1956 inside a tailor shop.
是谁在五月第一天就看到这么好的片子(哦！是我
资源名：誓不低头。私人订制，高档西装。如果你不知道是为谁而做，你就做不出好东西。人犯错的时候，最好的方法就是坦白。结局没想到，挺意外的。收获最多的是女主，一箱钱。
ps：瑞奇好帥！
有点小失望，说不上来期待什么，但总觉得会有所惊喜，于是期待到最后也没有等到想象中的惊喜，但仔细一想好像故事也称得上精彩，演技算得上精湛，或许是自己的胃口早已经被快节奏重反转的故事给喂刁了。不过作为单一场景下，只有几个演员飙戏构成的故事结构，还挺不错的，挺适合国内翻拍。
短小但不够精悍，前50分钟比较乏味。后续的故事，也颇有种为反转而反转的意味，因为老头的计划达成得太顺利，显得黑帮很蠢。最后又翻出老头的真实身份，固然很帅，但有些画蛇添足。
想不到除了立本人还有谁在尿尿的时候跳踢踏舞才不奇怪
如师如父 一生走过的路 您早已做出了指引 最后以长镜头回归初心 走得再远 依然是舞台上那个浅草小子
马克里朗斯真是好。另外俩男的，一个移动迷宫一个滑稽游戏，都老了。恍如隔世啊！
但是剧情真是…看的时候紧张刺激
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